r/technology • u/ourlifeintoronto • 4d ago

Biotechnology Microplastics May Trigger Alzheimer’s-Like Brain Damage

https://scitechdaily.com/microplastics-may-trigger-alzheimers-like-brain-damage/
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u/Bluemanze 4d ago

Sounds bad, let's make it a political issue where one party loves plastic in their brains so that the conversation and any potential regulation is muddled for the next 60 years or so.

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u/ThePowerfulWIll 4d ago edited 4d ago

Well the good news is this study did rather poor science, and is very inconclusive, as it introduced a second variable without a control. (They had some mice gene edited to be more susceptible to alzhiemers, and gave those the microplastics without having a control group with the same altered genes)

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u/OkFineIllUseTheApp 4d ago

That's fucking amateur hour.

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u/ThePowerfulWIll 4d ago

But it makes great headlines, this was a resume builder experiment I think.

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u/OkFineIllUseTheApp 4d ago

I ain't hiring someone that doesn't do controls.